Rodak's hematology : clinical principles and applications /

Rodak's Hematology: Clinical Principles and Applications, 6th Edition uses hundreds of full-color photomicrographs to help you understand the essentials of hematology. This new edition shows how to accurately identify cells, simplifies hemostasis and thrombosis concepts, and covers normal hemat...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Diagnostic hematology (Rodak)
Main Authors: Otto, Catherine N. (Author, Editor), Walenga, Jeanine M. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Keohane, Elaine M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2020]
Edition:Sixth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction to hematology
  • An overview of clinical laboratory hematology
  • Quality assurance in hematology and hemostasis testing
  • Part II: Blood cell production, structure, and function
  • Cellular structure and function
  • Hematopoiesis
  • Erythrocyte production and destruction
  • Erythrocyte metabolism and membrane structure and function
  • Hemoglobin metabolism
  • Iron kinetics and laboratory assessment
  • Leukocyte development, kinetics, and functions
  • Platelet production, structure, and function
  • Part III: Laboratory evaluation of blood cells
  • Manual, semiautomated, and point-of-care testing and hematology
  • Automated blood cell analysis
  • Examination of the peripheral blood film and correlation with the complete blood count
  • Bone marrow examination
  • Body fluid analysis in the hematology laboratory
  • Part IV: Erythrocyte disorders
  • Anemias: red blood cell morphology and approach to diagnosis
  • Disorders of iron kinetics and heme metabolism
  • Anemias caused by defects of DNA metabolism
  • Bone marrow failure
  • Introduction to increased destruction of erythrocytes
  • Intrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction
  • Extrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction-nonimmune causes
  • Extrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction-immune causes
  • Hemoglobinopathies (Structural defects in hemoglobin)
  • Thalassemias
  • Part V: Leukocyte disorders
  • Non-malignant leukocyte disorders
  • Intro to hematologic malignancies
  • Flow cytometric analysis in hematologic disorders
  • Molecular diagnostics in the clinical laboratory
  • Cytogenetics
  • Acute leukemias
  • Myeloproliferative neoplasms
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Mature lymphoid neoplasms
  • Part VI: Hemostasis and thrombosis
  • Normal hemostasis and coagulation
  • Hemorrhagic disorders and laboratory assessment
  • Qualitative disorders of platelets and vasculature
  • Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis
  • Thrombotic disorders and laboratory assessment
  • Antithrombotic therapies and their laboratory assessment
  • Laboratory evaluation of hemostasis
  • Hemostasis and coagulation instrumentation
  • Part VII: Hematology and hemostasis in selected populations
  • Hematology and hemostasis in the pediatric, geriatric, and pregnant populations.